Senior Software Developer, Flight Operations

Boeing•Seattle, WA

About The Position

Senior Software Developer, Flight Operations Company: The Boeing Company The Boeing Company is currently seeking a Senior Software Developer to support our Onboard Performance Tool group located in Seattle, WA. This position will focus on supporting the Boeing Global Services (BGS) business organization. Develop and maintain new capabilities for the Onboard Performance Tool (OPT) application used by airline pilots around the world to perform real-time weight and balance, takeoff, climb out, inflight and landing calculations. We are looking for a senior software developer with preferred experience in airplane performance and flight operations. The successful candidate will have extensive experience developing applications for administrators and end users in airline operations, including flight operations and flight crew. Airplane performance domain knowledge required. C++ development experience is required on both MacOS and Windows; FORTRAN and SQL skills are a plus. Experience with agile software development, CI/CD environments, and cloud hosting of applications is desirable. Previous customer support and technical product management of airplane performance tools is desirable. Understanding of commercial, business and military airplane performance regulations a plus. Position Responsibilities: Owns the architecture, design, hands‑on development (writes, debugs, and refactors production code), analysis, and maintenance of large‑scale software systems that meet industry, customer, and quality standards. Partners with stakeholders to define systems and translates system‑level requirements into software requirements, models, and executable designs with clear traceability to design, code, and test artifacts. Actively codes and leads deep technical code reviews to ensure correctness, security, performance, and conformance to requirements and engineering standards. Implements, runs, and monitors verification strategies: authors and maintains automated tests, executes verification activities, triages and resolves issues, and signs off on software readiness for production. Reviews and improves product and process alignment with project plans and industry standards; tracks and evaluates internal team and supplier performance and contributes code or fixes when needed to meet delivery goals. Research, prototypes, and implements current and emerging technologies, tools, and frameworks; integrates changes into production codebases and documents adoption patterns and migration plans. Manages software project activities and coordinates software supplier relationships while contributing substantial hands‑on implementation work for critical deliverables. Provides comprehensive technical leadership by both designing systems and implementing core components; guides teams in building and operating production-ready systems. Engages in architectural discussions, influences the roadmap, and personally owns and implements key projects and initiatives. Diagnosing and resolving complex technical issues in code and system design; drives innovations that improve availability, resilience, and performance through concrete code and configuration changes. Evaluates emerging technologies and prototypes pragmatic solutions; authoritatively moves successful experiments into production code. Mentors and develops engineers at all levels through paired programming, hands-on code reviews, design walkthroughs, and technical coaching. Independently takes projects from initiation through delivery with minimal supervision, including authoring the majority of the implementation and delivering production‑quality code. Creates clarity from ambiguity through effective teamwork, problem decomposition, well‑documented code, and clear technical communication. Ability to take projects from beginning to end with little direct supervision. Teamwork and coordination skills with ability to create clarity from ambiguity.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in software development utilizing Java, C++ or C#
10+ years of hands-on experience in developing and deploying software programs
6+ years of experience writing and testing software
5+ years of architecting software solutions
Experience with designing mobile apps and desktop solutions

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science
Leads activities to develop, document and maintain architecture, requirements, algorithms, interfaces and designs for software systems.
Leads development of code and integration of complex software components into a fully functional software system.
Provides technical leadership for software projects and leads software supplier management activities.
Leads development, selection, tailoring and deployment of processes, tools and metrics.
Plans, executes and documents software research and development projects.
Serves as a subject matter expert for software domains, system-specific issues, processes and regulations.
Tracks and evaluates software team and supplier performance to ensure product and process conformance to project plans and industry standards.
Works under minimal direction.

Responsibilities

Owns the architecture, design, hands‑on development (writes, debugs, and refactors production code), analysis, and maintenance of large‑scale software systems that meet industry, customer, and quality standards.
Partners with stakeholders to define systems and translates system‑level requirements into software requirements, models, and executable designs with clear traceability to design, code, and test artifacts.
Actively codes and leads deep technical code reviews to ensure correctness, security, performance, and conformance to requirements and engineering standards.
Implements, runs, and monitors verification strategies: authors and maintains automated tests, executes verification activities, triages and resolves issues, and signs off on software readiness for production.
Reviews and improves product and process alignment with project plans and industry standards; tracks and evaluates internal team and supplier performance and contributes code or fixes when needed to meet delivery goals.
Research, prototypes, and implements current and emerging technologies, tools, and frameworks; integrates changes into production codebases and documents adoption patterns and migration plans.
Manages software project activities and coordinates software supplier relationships while contributing substantial hands‑on implementation work for critical deliverables.
Provides comprehensive technical leadership by both designing systems and implementing core components; guides teams in building and operating production-ready systems.
Engages in architectural discussions, influences the roadmap, and personally owns and implements key projects and initiatives.
Diagnosing and resolving complex technical issues in code and system design; drives innovations that improve availability, resilience, and performance through concrete code and configuration changes.
Evaluates emerging technologies and prototypes pragmatic solutions; authoritatively moves successful experiments into production code.
Mentors and develops engineers at all levels through paired programming, hands-on code reviews, design walkthroughs, and technical coaching.
Independently takes projects from initiation through delivery with minimal supervision, including authoring the majority of the implementation and delivering production‑quality code.
Creates clarity from ambiguity through effective teamwork, problem decomposition, well‑documented code, and clear technical communication.
Ability to take projects from beginning to end with little direct supervision.
Teamwork and coordination skills with ability to create clarity from ambiguity.

Benefits

Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.

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